But You Didn’t

By Merrill Glass

Remember the time you lent me your car

and I dented it?

I thought you'd kill me...

But you didn't.

Remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance was

formal, and you came in jeans?

I thought you'd hate me...

But you didn't.

Remember the times I'd flirt with

other boys just to make you jealous, and

you were?

I thought you'd drop me...

But you didn't.

There were plenty of things you did to put

up with me,

to keep me happy, to love me, and there

are

so many things I wanted to tell

you, when you returned from

Vietnam...

But you didn't.